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"Albert," the neighbor said, "your mom needs you to come home." That's how it began for Albert Hsu when his father died. Anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide experiences tremendous shock and trauma. What follows is a confusing mix of emotions-anger, guilt, grief, and despair.
Suicide raises heartrending questions: Why did this happen? Why didn't we see it coming? Could we have done anything to prevent it? How can we go on?
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4) The rescuer: one firefighter's story of courage, darkness, and the relentless love that saved him
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"Jason Sautel had it all. Confident in his abilities and trusted by his fellow firefighters, he was making a name for himself on the streets of Oakland, California. His adrenaline-fueled job even helped him forget the pain of his childhood--until the day he looked into the eyes of a jumper on the Bay Bridge and came face to face with a darkness he knew would take him down as well. In the following months, a series of traumatic emergency calls--some...
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Holy Longing turns his attention to one of the stigmas of our time. A new way of understanding death by suicide with chapters on • Removing the Taboo • Despair as Weakness rather than Sin • Reclaiming the Memory of our Loved One Ronald Rolheiser is a Catholic priest, internationally renowned speaker and spiritual writer whose books appeal to Christians of all backgrounds and spiritual seekers of all...
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"An extended reflection on finding authentic Christian joy in the midst of suffering and despair, especially the twenty-first-century epidemics of suicide and addiction"--
"My vocation was supposed to be joy, and I was speaking at funerals." Shortly after being hired by Yale University to study joy, Angela Gorrell got word that a close family member had died by suicide. Less than a month later, she lost her father to a fatal opioid addiction and...
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More and more people who are terminally ill are choosing assisted suicide. When is it Right to Die? offers a different path with alternatives of hope, compassion, and death with real dignity. Joni Eareckson Tada knows what it means to wrestle with this issue and to wish for a painless solution. For the last 50 years she has been confined to a wheelchair and struggled against her own paralysis. And she sat by the bedside of her dying father, thinking,...
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Trina Olson can be, described as someone God is transforming into someone she never knew. After being, pulled off an embankment while committing suicide, God turned her life around and spoke to her audibly, saying, "You can continue to be stupid, but I (God) have a plan for your life." God has taken her on an incredible journey ever since!
Unleashed and Ready to Reign was, birthed out of a vision God revealed to Trina while she was on a mission trip...
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All I wanted to do was to make things easier for everyone else, in my life by removing my problems from their lives.
In this intimate revelation about her personal mental health journey, Evangelist Angie BEE displays to readers the strength, hope, and faith that it takes to be an overcomer with one's mental health.
Evangelist Angie BEE preaches from a prophetic gift from God. She conducts red carpet event interviews and features those videos on...
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After the suicide death of our daughter, my heart became a battlefield between seeking answers that could put all the pieces back together again, finding peace and courage that enabled me to forgive myself, and even God, to move forward. This is my journey at the cliffs of abandonment. It is a place of death, loss, hopelessness, and fear. It is a place of wrestling with who the Father truly is and who I am in Him. It is a place of courage to embrace...
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Suicide is the nation's tenth leading cause of death, and in 2018 nearly 50,000 people in the US died by suicide, with thousands more attempting to take their own lives. Countless others experience suicidal ideation due to depression, anxiety, addiction, and more, living for years in silent misery. The sad truth is that someone you know may be suffering.
With great compassion and clear, actionable strategies, So Much to Live For shows you what to...
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Do you sometimes, feel life is completely hopeless and it's just too hard to keep going? You are not alone! Me too! An average of 129 people in the US-men, women, and children-end their lives daily. And, for every person who commits suicide, 268 others consider it. That's 12.6-million people a year whose lives are directly impeded or ended by it, without counting the friends and family members it indirectly affects.
But, we don't have to be part of...
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Vernon Slovin was a legend-one of the best swimmers in his home country of South Africa, and for a time in the world. He prided himself on being the best-in sports, business, and life. He had it all, a big home, athletic prestige, fancy clothes and cars, and a beautiful wife and family. Everything was going his way until it all came tumbling down. He lost everything, including his own life. In the wake of his suicide he left his wife and two young...
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"Her husband's suicide swept away every dream Kayla Stoecklein had for what her life would be. She wanted their old, familiar routines. She wanted to share responsibility for raising their three young boys. In time she realized that more than anything, she wanted to know that though her old life was no longer possible, a new life for her and her family was up ahead. Whatever loss you are facing-- the heartbreak of divorce, the death of a loved one,...
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Would you know how to respond if the person sitting next to you in your pew was contemplating suicide? Every year, millions of people engage in suicidal activity, including those in our faith communities. Yet the Church remains largely silent around the topics of mental health, depression, and suicide prevention. How can you and your faith community be prepared to recognize and respond to those struggling for their very lives in your church? In The...
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Every single day, someone you know is thinking about committing suicide. It isn't just one or two-ten million Americans will consider killing themselves in the upcoming year. Dr. Matthew Sleeth believes Christians-and our churches-should be the first to offer hope. Are we prepared to do so?
As a physician and minister, Dr. Sleeth shares his personal and professional experiences with depression and suicide, challenging Christians to become part of...
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A Christian homeschooling mom of a large family, Suzy LaBonte never imagined one of her children might die by suicide. She received an agonizing blow the day her sixteen-year-old son, Zachary, without threat or forewarning, chose to end his own life. The following months were bleak and sorrowful as Suzy struggled down a confusing path of shock, anger, guilt, and depression.
Slowly putting one foot in front of the other, Suzy focused on the unfailing...
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A celebration and an elegy, Scenes with My Son sensitively renders the terrible privilege of grief in the wake of suicide.
After years of battling clinical depression exacerbated by autism, Auggie Hubbard died by suicide at the age of 19. In this poignant tribute to his son, Robert Hubbard-a theatre scholar and actor-stages Auggie's life in a series of vivid and tender scenes: Auggie's insatiable hunger for Accelerated Reader points. His tireless...
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